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Let’s be BI …
Ani Vasileva
Business Intelligence Consultant
Adastra Bulgaria
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Adastra in the world ...Group
London
UK
Toronto
CA
Frankfurt
DE
Wolfsburg
DE
Moscow
RU
Bratislava
SK
Montreal
CA
New York
USA
Varna
BG
Sofia
BG
Prague
CZ
PROJECTS in 30+ countries
Albania
Australia
Croatia
Czech
Republic
Nigeria
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Germany
Romania
Russia
Austria
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Brazil
Belarus
Bulgaria
Canada
China
Ghana
Greece
Hungary
India
Kazakhstan
Kosovo
Malta
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Ukraine
United
Kingdom
United States
Montenegro
Vietnam
Adastra Bulgaria
 Established in 2007
 2 Offices
 130+ Consultants
 More than 40 completed
projects
 The 6th fastest growing IT
company in 2011*
 15+ international и 5+ local customers
 Unparalleled Information Management experience in the region
*Darik Finance
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Our Business Partners …
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Our Customers
Global
Local
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Projects & Industries
0,90%
Financial services
7,01%
7,73%
2,97%
1,07%
Insurance
66,23%
Utility
Retail
14,09%
Telco
Public sector
Manufacturing
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Adastra Best Shore model …
 Adastra Bulgaria is a consulting company…
Best Shore
delivery model
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My path to *ad-astra…
Adastra ...
TU – knowledge
but no
experience
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Knowledge,
motivation but
jobless
1st job –
knowledge,
experience but
no passion
2nd job –
knowledge,
experience,
passion but no
challenges
(*lat. ad-astra:
to the stars)
“I have to make a decision …”
What is Business Intelligence?
Data exists ,
but … needs
Information
… and again
Data
Visualization
transforms
data into
Information
Knowledge
powers
Decisions
Information
becomes
Knowledge
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BCRR Project …
The Project …
Our customer, one of the biggest banks in Canada …
… needs a decision making & reporting solution for Basel Credit Risk
…
… build with …
… by the best!
1 Project Manager
2 Business Analysts
2 Technical Leads
2 Universe Designers
*8 BI Developers
*8 Quality Assurance
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BCRR Project …
How that works … in the time?
Business Analysts, Business Users
Adastra Canada &
Customer
Onshore
Team
PM, Tech Leads, Universe Designers
2 am
11 am
BI Developers
QA
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5 pm
Adastra Bulgaria
Offshore
Team
BCRR Project … or our adventure on the board
The Challenges …
 The 1st BI project for our long-term customer
 The 1st SAP BO project for Adastra Bulgaria
 The 1st Adastra Bulgaria project with entirely new
staff
 8 developers, 8 QAs, 2 supervisors, new
technology, 1 month training only
 Different Time Zone - 2 working hours overlap
 Requirements and priorities changing
 Changing deadlines
“… every challenge has a solution that you can create…" Helena Wozniak, PM
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Let me inspire you …
Learn by doing
We are all works-in-progress
Every day is exam day
Not moving forward is moving
backward
Learn
Focus
Have a goal …
… and always stay focused
Risk & Try
Take intelligent risk… playing it save is one of the riskiest things
Try and fail … and try again
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Be part of what we are doing …
If you have...
… we provide …
 Good knowledge of SQL
 Training Program
 Good English and/or German
 Databases – high-level
technologies
 Strong motivation
 Flexibility
 Logical thinking
 Eager about professional
growth
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 International teams
 Corporate customers
 Ability to travel
 Career development plan
КъFollow us on…
• 38B, Cherni Vryh blvd.
1407 Sofia, Bulgaria
Tel: (+359) 2 960 00 30
Fax: (+359) 2 960 00 31
• 113, Gen. Kolev str.
9002 Varna, Bulgaria
Tel: (+359) 2 819 34 09
Fax: (+359) 2 960 00 31
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